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Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...
This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...
GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries
Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...
The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...
This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...
The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...
Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc., have had a long-...
Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...
The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...
This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...
Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...
Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...
Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...
Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...
This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...
Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...
Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...
Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...
This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...
A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...
A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...
The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...
